July 10, 2021 a thought for today, Malice leaves reality behind. Mexican Proverb

We have the twins this week end!!!! It’s been over a month, maybe even two,  since we have had them here for a visit. 

The photo theme for yesterday was “starts with C”. I chose a deck of cards. I shot some images of cakes mixes and carrots. I liked the composition and colors on the cards best of the three. 

I mentioned in my last blog that we were now baby sitting for a cat. Well, we have been unable to find him. He hides and he does it very well. We have found him two separate times, briefly, in the past two and a half days. The first time was inside one of the folds of the electric lounge chair in Bob’s bed room. The other time was under a huge hassock that I had crocheted and placed behind the sofa in the living room. He had squeezed himself underneath it and seemed to be happily sleeping away until we disturbed him. 

After I had a fair start to the day, the girls mentioned that they would like to go in search of a garage sale to visit. So about ten o’clock we started out in our search. I had also read that there was supposed to be a Jam Fest at the park to begin at 11:00am. So we went by the park first. There was no activity like set up in any part of the park. So we changed direction. I had noticed early in the week a sign that said St. Mary Magdalene Church was having a flea market today to beginning at around 9:00 so that is the next place we went. It was spread out over the lawn and inside the building. I let Sue and the kids out and found a place to park. They spent close to an hour shopping and had a ball. Then we headed up and down a few streets looking for more yard sales. Then to McDonalds for some lunch, back by the park for a few minutes on the play ground equipment. Home at last!

The first photo challenge for today was “pen”. For me that is kind of a boring subject for I

couldn’t think of anything to jazz it up except for a touch of bright yellow against the black pen. 

I couldn’t find the photo challenge there for today, “shadow”, because it was cloudy with only a quick peek of the sun now and then. 

I want to tie up any loose ends in today’s agenda as early as I can. I want to go to the church for a few minutes to put out some coloring pages and to get a count of people for the newsletter. I have to be there by 5:00 so dinner here will be around 4:00. 

The word for today is calm.  Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. Saint Francis de Sales. Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. Martin Luther.   Calmness is the cradle of power. Josiah Gilbert Holland.  Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton. We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves, Gautama Buddha. Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties, Horace.  The hurrier I go, the behinder I get, Lewis Carroll. If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness, Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse.  Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together, Thomas Carlyle.  A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety, Aesop.  Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness, Alphonse Karr. Calmness is always godlike, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought, Thucydides.   

The second photo for today is titles “shadow”. Today was heavily overcast and drizzly so I decided to go to my archives for a shadow image. 

This article covers some more history about downtown Columbus. It’s great to learn about some of what came before us right here in our “neighborhood”. It is about a family named Deshler who wanted to help Columbus “reach for the sky”.The first skyscraper in Columbus, the Wyandotte Building, was built in 1897.  It is towers of glass and steel 30 and 40 stories tall. It is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. I learned that it is referenced to the Wyandot Native Americans. The architect who designed the building also designed the Union Station in Columbus. Another bit of interest about the building is that buildings of that era were not meant to be more than four or five stories tall because there were no elevators and people didn’t want to regularly climb that many stairs not to mention the possibility of fires that may occur that would difficult to put out. The response to the thoughts of taller building and fire caused the architect to give some thought to “fireproof” architecture. The Great Souther Hotel was one of the first in the area. The only wood in the building was furniture. It was built only a few stories tall. The builder of the Wyandotte Building took a different approach on another building. He used a steel frame and tile arch construction. The building went to eleven stories.  “Electric elevators” were coming into service then. John Green Deshler was the primary sponsor of the building. David Deshler was his grandfather. He, David, paid $1,000 for a lot at the northwest corner of Broad and High streets. He was a cabinet maker and then he went into banking. His son, William Green Deshler, and some of his friends planted four parallel lines of trees east on Broad Street to Franklin Park. In 1857. There was a four story “Deshler Block” at Broad and High that was replaced with a 300-room Deshler Hotel. Later a building called the Leveque Tower was built next door. John Green Deshler sold the Wyandotte Building to the state of Ohio. The building was renovated in the 1970s and remains a commercial office space. John green Deshler died in 1929 and is buried in Green Lawn Cemetery.

I think it will be fried bologna sandwiches and fries for dinner. 

Joy

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